Reply To: What’s in it for me vs. What I’m needed for?

I’m reminded of what I read in R’ Bender’s sefer on Chumash a few weeks ago.
We need to recognize what Hashem wants from us, instead of what we think is correct. He had a story with R’ Chaim Epstein zt”l, when some of his students were travelling to a friend’s wedding. They had miscalculated their timing, and if they wanted to stop to daven mincha with a minyan, they would be late for the wedding. They called R’ Epstein and asked what to do. He told them to daven b’yichidus and get to the wedding – he asked, “If it comes to the chuppah, and the chosson sees none of his friends are there, how will he feel?”
One of the boys protested that he hadn’t missed a single minyan since his bar mitzvah. R’ Epstein replied, “You think streaks matter in Shamayim? What matters is what Hashem wants from you – and in this case, that’s to go to the wedding!”